Roger S. Hanks

Whit,

Enjoyed this great story. And your application of an Eastern tradition that would serve Westerner's well.
My fondest memory of your Dad: i'd just started a small business shooting aerial photos out of my Dad's antique airplane (with Rob Schmidt). Roger was my first customer, commissioning our work for his real estate clients--demanded complete confidentiality. With the strong warning that he better "never see my name on the application list for a real estate license" He was...

I can remember your dad back in 1949 and 50 when I worked for an attorney friend of his, Larry Bruckman in the old Littlefield building.. I was a young pipsqueak just out of high school and very impressed when the tall, blond headed handsome man would walk into Larry's office. I was all of 17-18 years old. He was a wonderful person and a wonderful friend. He would try to give me investment advice but making $10 a week I was too dumb to realize what he was trying to do for me.